Testing the crossposting feature while managing someone else's crisis and waiting for Naomi to get home so we can go out this afternoon.

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Working on exporting everything from here to Dreamwidth as most of you are. I've needed space for longform noodling but haven't felt comfortable here. My username there is the same for the sake of convenience, but I don't know if it will stay that way.

There is something both sweet and scary about preparing Naomi for her first big protest where bad things might happen. It's Orlando and so I'm not as worried as I might be if it were DC or New York or some of the other places I've participated in social actions like this one, but still, sitting your kid down and saying "Here's a card with all your ( Read more... )

In the last three weeks there have been three bomb threats at our local Jewish Community Center. The JCC is a great spot-terrific camps, love their kid programs, wonderful pre-school, lots of great things about it. But the world has become threatening, and bomb threats at the JCC, while not out of the ordinary were not frequent; I'd always ( Read more... )

Local news station interviewed Naomi yesterday about her campaign to get Hanukkah decorations

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I am more and more amazed each day.

Also, when did Naomi grow up so much?

Normally I'd have posted this kind of long form thing on Livejournal, but once I decided to submit it for publication I couldn't post a full story anywhere else until I knew what was going on.

Look what Naomi did that I wrote about and someone else published

Any 8 year old who can stand up and speak in front of the City Council deserves to go out for dinner after. We had a friend along and Andrew and I were looking at menus and catching up and so Naomi ordered a giant root beer float while we wasn't paying attention. And she enjoyed it ( Read more... )

You may or may not recall that two years ago, Naomi wrote a letter to the mayor of our town about the lack of Hanukkah decorations in the city light displays, and he wrote back to her promising to correct that. Two years later, there are still no Hanukkah decorations in the city-sponsored display, and when we were talking about this with a friend ( Read more... )

I just had to go read past my front page to read the most current posts for the first time in a while.

I remember when not reading LJ for a day meant so many posts it was impossible to catch up. It's good to see life breathed back into LJ again.

Naomi and Miriam go to a "casually uniform" school; their school has uniforms but most of the time, unless a kid is violating the county dress code, they don't really do anything about it. So I told her she could wear her "A Woman's Place is in the House and the Senate and the Oval Office" shirt on Election Day next week as long as she wore proper ( Read more... )